{"id":101,"date":"2009-10-28T07:46:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T11:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-11-02T02:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T06:15:32","slug":"dan-livingston-wins-wsop-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/dan-livingston-wins-wsop-circuit","title":{"rendered":"Dan Livingston Triumphs at WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan Livingston, a part time poker player from Oak Forest, Illinois, proved that anyone can win it big playing poker when he took home $291,749 at the World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Chicago Main Event. Livingston won his way into the event, which had a $5,000 buy-in and 248 participants, when he won a casino promotion at the Horseshoe poker room.<\/p>\n

Prior to the World Series of Poker Circuit win, Livingston had played in tournaments with low-limit and middle-limit buy-ins. His largest cash win had been $4,000, which he won playing poker online. His new win of nearly $300,000 blows all his previous wins out of the water.<\/p>\n

The full list of players at the final table were as follows:<\/p>\n

1st place – Dan Livingston with $291,749<\/p>\n

2nd place – Tom Floros with $180,287<\/p>\n

3rd place – Chris Gentile with $119,556<\/p>\n

4th place – Tad Mosele with $84,594<\/p>\n

5th place – William Schweinebraten with $63,744<\/p>\n

6th place – William Miner with $50,871<\/p>\n

7th place – Joshua Goldstein with $42,881<\/p>\n

8th place – Jacob Bazeley with $38,082<\/p>\n

9th place – Michael Parisi with $35,533<\/p>\n

What I like most about this win is that it shows how non-professional, part-time poker underdogs can rise to take the gold in big poker tournaments. If the buy-in is too much for you then you can always win a spot at the table through casino promotions or satellite tournaments. It was a complete surprise for Livingston to even get the chance to participate in the tournament and when it ended it was well worth it.<\/p>\n

Livingston said, “I feel really good… Forty hours of work for nearly $300,000? I’ll take it!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Livingston, a part time poker player from Oak Forest, Illinois, proved that anyone can win it big playing poker when he took home $291,749 at the World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Chicago Main Event. Livingston won his way into the event, which had a $5,000 buy-in and 248 participants, when he won a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,50,11,44,19,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}